Setting up a Pi Zero and ssh-ing into it, would be a lot easier if you could connect it to a PC with a USB OTG cable and it would automatically make an Ethernet-over-USB connection.
All you need to get started, would be a single USB cable (the same one you use to charge you phone) instead of a power-supply, a USB hub, a Wifi-dongle, a screen and a keyboard (apart from the PC needed to create the SD card).

hjimbens wrote:All you need to get started, would be a single USB cable (the same one you use to charge you phone)

According to the bug report, the OTG driver for host mode though a cable adapter is incompatible with the gadget driver for device mode. The obvious work around for the Zero is to forego connecting a keyboard or hub to the Pi using the OTG cable adapter and only compile the gadgets driver. You can't use both at the same time anyway since there is only one USB port.